College Football 2010: A Fan's Guide To SEC Quarterbacks

There has been so much spin surrounding the SEC quarterback situation that most fans have no idea of what is true or false anymore. There is so much false agenda being pushed that it borders on dishonesty.

It is time to take a real look at the SEC quarterback situation from a factual standpoint. To look at this fairly, there needs to be some criteria. Here is what I intend to use and how I intend to use it.

First there will be a look at experience. For this look at experience, every game that a quarterback has played since high school will be included.

For those that think high school experience is relevant, feel free to add your own statistics.

This will be an actual look at performance, not the recruiting service star value assessment. I have never witnessed a star completing a pass in a football game. In fact more often than not, recruiting services have missed their mark on the quarterback position.

With this explanation behind us, let’s take a look at the real starting quarterback situationin the SEC.

While some of these quarterbacks will be starting in a new system, this is no different than a team changing offensive coordinators. Some would allude to the fact that some of this experience was not with an SEC team against an SEC opponent.

The truth is that most of these quarterbacks have much of their experience against much lesser opponents. While a quarterback might have accumulated some of his experience while in the JUCO ranks, he was playing with JUCO talent against competitive talent. Most SEC quarterbacks get the majority of their preparatory experience while playing on a hugely superior team against overmatched teams.

The theme of this article is experience, therefore when looking at performance statistics will be broken down on a career per game basis in yards.